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Paneer Chilla (Cottage cheese stuffed pancakes)

June 8, 2017

Today’s recipe is ‘Paneer Chilla’. This recipe is a very healthy and nutritious recipe of lentil pancake which is stuffed with cottage cheese. It is basically moong dal chilla which is stuffed with spiced paneer/cottage cheese. I have already shared moong dal chilla recipe on the blog. Moong dal chilla recipe is available here.

Paneer Chilla

Paneer chilla can be enjoyed as a breakfast recipe or mid meal/tea-time snack. It is a quick recipe. You can serve it with green chutney or ketchup. As month of Ramadan is going on, you cook this healthy and nutritious chilla for iftar.

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Yield: 10

Duration: 45 mins

Ingredients for Paneer Chilla

For filling

Paneer/cottage cheese

100 gms

Garam masala / all spice powder

1/2 tsp

Roasted cumin powder / jeera powder

1/2 tsp

Chaat masala

1/2 tsp

Black salt

1/4 tsp or as per taste

Mint leaves

9-10 leaves

For chilla

Saboot Moong dal / Green gram lentil flour

2 cups

Salt

1 tsp or as per taste

Bhuna jeera / Roasted cumin powder

1 tsp

Garam Masala / All spice powder

1/2 tsp or as per taste

Green chilli

4-5

Garlic cloves

10-11

Ginger

1"

Oil

for shallow frying

Water

for preparing batter

Method for Paneer Chilla

For filling :

Grate fresh paneer/cottage cheese in a mixing bowl.

Add all the filling ingredients listed above. Mix well.

For chilla :

Prepare flour of moong dal/green gram lentil, if you have flour mill at home.

Now prepare a batter for chilla/pancakes. Batter should be of pouring consistency. Keep it aside for 10-15 mins.